The renowned poet, civil rights activist, and longtime Virginia Tech professor of English Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of eighty-one. Giovanni came up during the Black Arts Movement, self-publishing her debut collection of poems, Black Feeling, Black Talk in 1968 with the help of friends. She went on to publish more than twenty-five […]

In the Irish Times, Sally Rooney writes about the climate crisis: “We know what’s already happening around us. And we know what’s coming next. When are we going to have the courage to stop it?” Citing Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Rooney discusses how capitalist impunity poses an existential threat. “Multinational corporations […]

Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital, about six astronauts on the International Space Station, is the winner of this year’s Booker Prize.  At the Columbia Journalism Review, Joel Simon argues that journalists covering Trump’s second term may benefit from taking an approach akin to that of a foreign correspondent. Simon talked with Suzy Hansen, whose book Notes […]

At Dissent, Gabriel Winant offers post-election analysis, outlining how Democratic leadership has “comprehensively failed to set the terms of ideological debate in any respect. Their defensiveness and hypocrisy served only to give encouragement to Trump while demobilizing their own voters, whom they will no doubt now blame—as though millions of disaggregated, disorganized individuals can constitute […]

The Fall 2024 issue of Bookforum is out now! In this edition: A. S. Hamrah on Agnès Varda’s stunning and nonlinear career, Brandon Taylor on the novels of Sally Rooney, Justin Taylor on getting lost and found in the Bob Dylan archives, Charlotte Shane and Jamie Hood in conversation, Christian Lorentzen on Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection, […]

The poet and translator Anne Carson will receive the Paris Review’s 2025 Hadada Award, which recognizes “a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature.” Reviewing Carson’s latest book, Wrong Norma, in the Winter 2024 issue of Bookforum, Jennifer Krasinski observed: “It is a fitting irony that […]

At The New Inquiry, read the Palestinian Youth Movement’s statement marking one year since October 7: “It will take decades to understand the scale of the violence Palestinians have endured this year. The grief across the Arab world is unfathomable. Our children are not numbers. They are among the two million forgotten by a world […]

The fall issue of the Paris Review is out now, with prose by Josephine Baker and Morgan Thomas, poetry by Hannah Arendt and Sara Gilmore, interviews with Rosemarie Waldrop and Javier Cercas, and more.  Online at n+1, read A. S. Hamrah on a sampling of this summer’s movies. On Osgood Perkins’s Longlegs: “Ordinary things like […]

In The Guardian, Moira Donegan covers last night’s presidential debate: “Trump failed to convincingly land attacks on Harris, and instead he spent much of the night arguing on the turf that his opponent chose for him. There was no bait she offered him that he didn’t take.” Tonight at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon, Charlotte […]

For The Nation, Benjamin Kunkel considers Daniel Susskind’s Growth: A History and a Reckoning and Kohei Saito’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, and cites a recent Nature article stating that due to the effects of climate change, “the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of […]

In a column for Harper’s Magazine, Hari Kunzru writes about his decision to withdraw from the PEN America literary festival as a protest against the organization’s failure to stand up for Palestinian writers. Kunzru takes on critics such as George Packer, who claim that an “authoritarian spirit” motivates critics of the war in Gaza who […]

At The Guardian, Sammy Feldblum profiles Daniel Denvir, the journalist and host of the socialist podcast The Dig. Since October 7, the podcast has been primarily devoted to discussing the war in Gaza and the “reactionary, colonialist propaganda” about the Arab world in the US. This week, Denvir is attending the DNC as an alternate […]

In an essay for the London Review of Books, Anne Carson writes about Parkinson’s, how it has changed her handwriting, and learning to use concentration and movement to work against the development of tremors. “Righting oneself against a current that never ceases to pull: the books tell me to pay conscious, continual attention to actions […]

At the end of this month, n+1 will publish The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade, an anthology featuring contributions to the magazine by Andrea Long Chu, Tobi Haslett, Elizabeth Schambelan, Jesse McCarthy, A. S. Hamrah, Tony Tulathimutte, and more. On the LARB Radio Hour podcast, editors Dayna Tortorici and Mark Krotov discuss […]

Essayist and editor Lewis Lapham has died at the age of eighty-nine. Lapham was the editor in chief at Harper’s Magazine for almost three decades (1976–1981; 1983–2006) during which he introduced features that remain fixtures of the magazine today: “The Harper’s Index,” “Readings,” and “Annotations.” In 2006 he founded Lapham’s Quarterly with the goal to […]

In an excerpt from her forthcoming book An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work, Charlotte Shane reflects on what her clients revealed when they talked to her about their wives, and how this information affected Shane’s view of her own role. “My allegiance was forever shifting between the two, the husband and […]

Hillbilly Elegy author, former venture capitalist, and Ohio senator J. D. Vance is Trump’s running mate. We’re revisiting Frank Guan’s piece in the Feb/March 2018 issue of Bookforum about Elizabeth Catte’s What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia: “Though the referent of the accusatory ‘you’ in the title is left intentionally vague, it clearly points […]

Andrea Robin Skinner, daughter of the late Canadian writer Alice Munro, has published an account in the Toronto Star revealing the sexual abuse she suffered as a child at the hands of her stepfather, Munro’s late husband Gerald Fremlin. Skinner writes about telling Munro about the abuse, which occurred in 1976, years later only to […]

The Summer 2024 issue of Bookforum is reaching subscribers and newsstands now! In this edition: A. S. Hamrah on Emily Nussbaum’s history of reality TV, Janique Vigier on Caroline Blackwood’s bleak comic world, Gene Seymour on how the early ’90s set the stage for America’s crooked present, Charlotte Shane on Miranda July’s mischievous midlife-crisis novel, […]

The final episode of the Longform Podcast, a conversation with John Jeremiah Sullivan, was posted today. Since the podcast started in 2012, hosts Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky, and Evan Ratliff have published 585 conversations with writers, editors, and artists. At Vulture, Longform fans and media critics pick some of the pod’s best episodes.    Harper’s Magazine […]